Daniel Stein, Interpreter : A Novel

Description

Daniel Stein, Interpreter is already seen by many as the great Russian novel of our time. The novel tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who miraculously survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. After the war, he converts to Catholicism, becomes a priest, enters the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, and emigrates to Israel. Despite this seemingly impossible progression, the life and destiny of Daniel Stein are not an invention - the character is based on the life of Oswald Rufeisen, the real Brother Daniel. This innovative, furious, and funny book, compiled as a series of documents - letters, diary entries, postcards, and other records - ranges from before the war to modern times and from the shtetl to Haifa to Boston. It tells of a life full of contradictions and undaunted faith.

Author description

Ludmilla Ulitskaya is Russia's bestselling literary novelist and has written fourteen novels, three tales for children, and six plays. She was born in Siberia and trained in Moscow as a geneticist. In the late 1970s, as punishment for translating a banned novel into Russian, she lost her scientific credentials and turned to writing. She was first published in Russia in 1985 and has since won many awards. Daniel Stein, Interpreter won the Russian National Literary Prize.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9781921844430
• Publisher : Scribe Publications
• Imprint : Scribe Publications
• Publication date : October 2011
• Dimensions : 230mm X 152mm
• Produced in : Australia
• Availability date : October 2011
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 416
• Dewey classification : 891.735
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Ludmilla Ulitskaya